A surplus of Army rations and goodwill helped improve the lives of many Europeans impoverished by World War II.

The shamrock is the symbol of Ireland and a recurring theme in The National WWII Museum’s collection.

A snapshot of Roland Martin's course from boyhood in California to a B-17 Pilot stationed in England, ending as a POW in Germany.

The United Nations was a child of World War II, and another one of FDR's good ideas.

From our 21st-century point of view, it is hard to imagine World War II without the United States as a major participant. Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, however, Americans were seriously divided over what the role of the United States in the war should be, or if it should even have a role at all. Even as the war consumed large portions of Europe and Asia in the late 1930s and early 1940s, there was no clear consensus on how the United States should respond.